Spoorthi Foundation ®

#1/A, Sahukar Channaiah Road, Opposite to Maruthi Temple, T K Layout, Mysore 570009

www.spoorthifoundation.org |+919741939815 spoorthifoundationmysore@gmail.com

Spoorthi Foundation is a Not for profit Organization registered under

Government of Karnataka started by a group of likeminded engineering

students of Mysore. The main motive of the organization is to inspire the

future generation of India by helping them mainly in academics.

“Education is the powerful tool that can change the world”

- Nelson Mandela

Motive

Being a responsible citizen of the country, Youths need to step up to a

cause and try their best to do something for the great nation that we all

are in.

“When you inspire a child to teach another, you are not just making them literates,

you are buliding them for a prosperous tomorrow”

Adarsh Ramesh, Founder Secretary, Project Reach Out

First Steps

The ideal thought of Spoorthi Foundation was to help and

encourage children in orphanages and government schools for

education by doing a bit of help from our side.

To give a good start, Spoorthi Foundation came up with the idea

of the program “One Book, One Dream” where we requested to

the students of MIT Mysore to donate a note book. Later, we

donated all collected books the orphanages and government

school in Mysore.

It gives a feeling in each one of us; if we have right to education,

why not all the children in this world cannot have.

When we are capable of sharing or donating a little in what we

have, why cannot we help the needy children in getting their

right for education?

Today by our little contribution, it gives hope to hundreds of

children in our locality; tomorrow these children will give hope

to thousands of people around the world.

This is how it all started…

PROJECTS

INDIA OF MY DREAMS (£À£Àß PÀ£À¹£À s̈ÁgÀvÀ)

Swami Vivekananda has always been an

inspiration for us. So, we wanted to start our

year with celebrating his 150th Birth

Anniversary with children. We decided to

conduct an essay competition for the high

school children. The topic was decided as

“India of My Dreams” in Kannada.

We managed to get prize sponsors from SRI

RAMAKRISHNA MATH, Mysore. And also our

friend Sandeep sponsored Instrument box for

the winners along with Stationaries required by

the children.

“Education is the manifestation of the

perfection already present in man”

- Swami VIvekananda

ONE BOOK ONE DREAM

This was Spoorthi Foundation’s first program which was conducted from April 25th, 2012 to May 4th, 2012 during the annual college fest at MIT Mysore.

We collected notebooks from the students of

our MIT Mysore and donated those to the

children of government schools. Subsequently

it was conducted during NEN E-Week 2013 and

Vidyuth 2013, annual college fest of

Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering

COMPUTER and ENGLISH WORKSHOP

The main intention of Spoorthi is to create

interest in children for education. Make them

aware about computers; and how much English

is important in present world; encourage them

for education without any discontinuation due

to their family or economic problems.

We conducted two days program to the children

of government primary school, Tilaknagar,

Mysore. Team of coordinators and volunteers

taught basics of Computers and English to the

children of 5th class to 7th class.

This same program was conducted for the

students at Government High School,

Vontikoppal, Mysore and in Gangothri School,

Mysore.

At the end of the computer session we played an

animated moral Kannada movie to the students.

JOY OF TEACHING WEEK 2013

When we started SPOORTHI, We were a bunch of engineering lads hoping to be the

change we wanted to see. Every journey begins with small steps. We managed to

conduct few sessions of computer basics and basics of English grammar in the one year.

We had limited resources, limited number of volunteers, and limited amount of time.

But, we had something that kept us marching forward, BELIEF! That we can inspire

others to take a step and make them to think of doing their little for the country. With

that hope, we kept working.

The event was conducted from Nov 6 – Nov 12, 2013. The motive of the event was to

inspire youths of Mysore to come to the government schools and interact with them.

Volunteers were allowed to teach whatever they knew. We approached PROJECT

REACH OUT, an initiative by the students of SJCE Mysore. They played a very important

role in making JOTW a success. Next in the line was Revion, a startup by the students of

MIT Mysore.

On the first day, we visited Manasa High School and Revion team visited Metagalli High

School. Next day, our team went to Banumaiah’s Girls High School. On the third

day, PROJECT REACH OUT joined the event. They visited Metagalli High School with their

team. India’s freedom struggle, photography, inspirational stories, mathematics,

English, computer were covered in their session.

Our team went to Yeliyuru 9th November, a village near Mandya

and took classes for the High school students. It was an amazing

experience to interact with the students as it was the first time we

were visiting a school outside Mysore.

Moving on to fifth day, our team visited Banumaiah’s Boys High

School. We concluded our event at Paduvarahalli School along

with, PROJECT REACH OUT. During the course of the event, live

update on Facebook and twitter were carried out by the volunteers

6 Days, 7 Schools, 25 Classes, 60 Volunteers, 1000 Students, 1

Mission: Inspiring the Future

The Joy of Teaching Week Inspired tens of people to teach,

hundreds of students to learn better and thousands of people to

believe that Yes, education can make a difference in shaping our

country better

JOY OF TEACHING WEEK 2014

Like we did in 2013, we wanted to spread the happiness of bringing smile on a child’s face.

From November 6 – November 12, we conducted second edition of Joy of Teaching Week

in Mysuru, Karnataka. This year we included 9 schools. The list is as below:

1. Lalitha High School, Vontikoppal

2. Banumaiah’s Girls High School, Sayyaji Rao Road

3. JSS High School, Vijayanagar

4. Hemavathi High School, T K layout

5. Kuvempu High School, SaraswathiPuram

6. Kukkarahalli High School

7. Gangothri High School

8. Metagalli High School

9. Maharaja Bifurcated High School

More than 100 volunteers from various colleges and organizations participated in the

event and share their knowledge with the children. Topics varied from computers to

science, Cleanliness to Crafts, Hearing problems and their solutions etc

Students of SJCE, MIT, Vidyavikas, ATME, GSSSIETW participated

in the event. Also volunteers from Audiology India along with the

students of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, and Fun +

Learn joined us

AASHIYANA 2014 One of the special program that was conducted during the second edition of Joy of

Teaching Week. On November 4th, 36 children of Ashadayaka Seva Trust celebrated

their first ever cultural fest. Volunteers from Mysore Medical College, JSS Medical

College, SJCE and Infosys Technologies trained them in dance, singing and other

stage activities.

Chamaraja constituency MLA Mr. Vasu and Prof. Venugopal Rao, JSS law College

were the chief guests along with Mr. A G Nanjappa Swamy, Marimallappa’s high

School teacher and Mr. Muralidhara, Retired HM.

Our volunteers did a wonderful job by regularly visiting Ashadayaka and training

the children. Spandhana Trust, Project reach out joined hands with us in the

arrangements for the fest. In the end, it was very fulfilling to see the smile and

happiness on the faces of the children.

Special thanks to sponsors’ who helped us in arranging costumes and food for the

children.

Many Kannada dailies covered our event. These are the stories

published in Prajavani and Andolana respectively

SPECIAL VISITS

Infosys Visit

As a part of our Industrial Visit program, students of Banumaiah’s girl’s high

school were taken to Infosys Mysuru Campus on 29th of November 2014.

An hour with Vijay Prakash

Acclaimed singer Vijay Prakash of “Jai Ho” fame film visited Ashadayaka Seva

Trust on 10th November 2014.

He advised children to believe in their dreams and to follow them no matter

what happens. He also sang famous “Jai Ho” song from the Oscar winning

movie “Slumdog Millionaire”.

Children showcased their talents by singing, dancing and doing mono acts.

Later we distributed sweets and kids took photos with him.

Then we bid farewell to him and children were left with all the smiles.

TEACH and LEARN ©

Teach and Learn is one of the ambitious programs of Spoorthi Foundation® in association with Project Reach Out ®. It is a yearlong weekend substitute classes conducted for the 10th standard students of Maharaja Bifurcated School and Govind Rao School. The program emphasizes on making sure that the students of government schools continue their education after SSLC. We are applying the technique of motivating them along with covering important aspects of the new syllabus. It is the ongoing project of Spoorthi Foundation started in the month of July 2014 which will go on till the end of the academic Year. We plan to increase the number of the schools from the next year. We continue to associate with project Reach Out ®.

GOVERNING BODY

Anvitha A N President

Sachin S V Vice President

Santhosh S V CEO

Sahana K Treasurer

Sowjanya K R Trustee

Lavanya Kashyap Trustee

Patil Anusha Trustee

Akash V Co-Founder & Public Relations Manager

Divya V Ram Director, Human Resources

Sandeep S Director, Swachh Vidyalay Abhiyan

Deepthi M Assistant Director, Human Resources

Radhika S Assistant Director, Human Resources

Partner Organizations

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If you wish to make a donation…

Account Name: Spoorthi Foundation

Account No. 065900101005454

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Corporation Bank, Vijayanagar Branch

While we believe in transparency, we request you to make donations

in form of materials and Stationaries instead of Cash.